Sunday, June 26, 2011

Hello, Rainbow Cake! Thank you, Pyrex Mixing Bowl!

When my daughter's first birthday rolled around this year, I just knew her cake had to be special. And homemade. I know, I'm weird like that. And, since she is truly the sunshine of our days, I wanted to make her a rainbow cake. Armed with a step by step tutorial which called for the use of two round cake pans, I decided a plain flat cake just wouldn't do. A rainbow cake needed to look like a rainbow, not just a layer cake with rainbow colors.

So an experiment was in order. I called my mom. Here's the convo:
Me: Mom. I need to make a cake in the shape of a rainbow. What should I do?
Mom: I don't know honey.
Me: You know the old pyrex mixing bowl set you gave me? You know, the set Dad got me from the thrift store?
Mom: Yes.
Me: Can I actually bake a cake in a pyrex bowl in the oven? Or will it explode into a million pieces?
Mom: I don't think it will explode. I think you can. I think people have been doing it for years. Why don't you try it?

Feeling frisky (and a bit wary) I took my vintage pyrex mixing bowl and filled it full of a boxed cake mix separated into 6 food colored parts, layered on top of each other one at a time. Does that count as homemade? Hmmm...maybe not.

With great fear and trepidation, I put that mixing bowl into the oven. Please Mr. Vintage Pyrex. Make me a rainbow cake without exploding. It's for the baby. You can do it. I know you can.

Sure enough, Mr. Vintage Pyrex did not disappoint. It made a perfect rainbow cake, to top off a perfect first birthday. Hello, rainbow birthday cake! Thank you, Pyrex mixing bowl! (And thank you Mrs. Milkglass for the pretty plate presentation!)

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That's really cool! I knew you could bake in Pyrex bowls, but I am really in awe over the fact that you did all those layers and they stayed seperate from each other. I'm going to have to try that cake- most definitely!